Thursday, May 21, 2009

On today's garden menu is White Pizza. If you are just checking in every Thursday I try to make a meal that uses garden produce well excluding store bought produce & for the most part meat. So here we go:

The Harvest

First I harvested way to much spinach and there is at least this much more in the garden that needs harvesting. The left over as well as what is still in the garden will be blanched and froze tomorrow. I then harvested another immature garlic. You may think this is garlic sacrilege but I planted them to closely. Thinning them now will allow the other bulbs to grow larger plus it is kind of nice to have fresh garlic when needed.

The Recipe

Pizza Dough (homemade or store bought)

garlic

2 tablespoons butter or olive oil

mozzarella cheese

couple handfuls of spinach

ricotta

Parmesan cheese

Start by pre-heating your oven to its highest setting, I used 525f. Now clean the spinach, remove the stems and then dry the leaves. Then stretch your dough to form the pizza. Once that is done chop the garlic finely and mix with the butter or oil. Then spread this mixture on the dough. Top that with grated mozzarella cheese, followed by the spinach and then add spoon fulls of ricotta on the top. Place it on a pizza stone or sheet pan and bake until brown and cooked through. Serve with a sprinkling of Parmesan.

This was the first time trying a white pizza so I was a bit hesitant but it did turn out very nice. The carnivore in me wanted grilled chicken on top but then it wouldn't be a garden meal anymore, ho-hum.

Pizza in our family is strange. I want veggies on mine and don't like meat on a pizza. My husband wants meat on his pizza and wouldn't eat a veggie to save his life. My daughter only eats cheese. Sigh. At least with homemade pizzas you can make individual ones. Of course I like mine with WW flour. My husband likes his white .. . Yours looks yummy. I could go for one of those.